1 The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus will cease as a city and will become a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks—they will lie down and no one will frighten them.
3 The fortress will also cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the glory of Bnei-Yisrael. It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
4 Now in that day Jacob’s glory will fade, and the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
5 It will be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain and reaps the heads with his arm, as when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.